Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

The knowledge of all things is possible

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

When you know better you do better.

Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore it.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.